ChatBar

A little acsii art for demonstration: [oooooooo]o - Buttons, colored the color of a chat type, left click to open editbox of that type, right click for type specific options. Initial letter of the type on or above the button[ ] - Ends of the bar, left click to drag, right click for options

Feedback & Support
If you have bugs or feature requests please use the buttons on the right.
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Button / ChatType Options:
Block (channel) - Toggles filtering of chat channels related to selected button without leaving channel.
Leave (Channel)
Print Channel User List - List prints to the default chat frame. Same as "/list #". (At this time, Blizzard does not support the listing of players from other realms in chat channels. When Blizzard allows this, this addon will support it.)
Hide This Button - Hide the button for that chat type or channel by name.
Reply (Whisper) - Open whisper to the last person that whispered you.
Retell (Whisper) - Open whisper to the last person you whispered.
Set Binding By Name (Channel) - Select one of the 10 channel bindings to use for this channel (saved by name instead of by index).
Sticky - http://www.wowwiki.com/Chat#Advanced_Chat_Terminology.2FDetails Note: Channels are all or none, other types can be stickied individually.

Bindings
There are now bindings available for the chat types and channels by index. Individual channels can also be set to bind by name, overriding a indexed binding of your choice.

Localizations:
English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
(I only speak English. All other translations have been user submitted. So if you have updates or new translations let me know.)

User Submitted Skins
The skinning system is a bit unique because it has more layers than a normal button with full up/down specularity and shadow as well as flash/hover alpha and normal shaping graphic that are all translucent to allow for the buttons to correspond to the chat type's selected color for each button.

To add a new custom Skin drop its folder into the ChatBar folder, modify the ChatBar_AltArtDirs table in ChatBar.lua and append the new folder name, then add a CHATBAR_SKIN# variable to the end of the localization file for it's readable name. Then select it from the dropdown in game.

Comes with the following skins: Solid, Glass and Squares

Reset
If you lose the bar you can reset it with this script: /run ChatBar_Reset()

v3.2
-Removed 'this' usage
-Buttons are now created on demand for less memory usage
-Fixed to work with latest chat changes
-Added BNet Whisper Button
-Added BNet Conversation Button
-toc to 40000

v3.1 (yarko)
-Added larger buttons option to options menu
-Added channel blocking capability to channel buttons right-click menu
-"/w" is now removed if the user first clicks the whisper button then another button without entering a whisper
-toc to 30300

v3.0
-Added a fix for parsing the first character of a chinese channel (3 chars)
-Fixed battleground chat button not showing up (thanks 狂飙)
-Fixed Show Channel ID on Buttons not working

v2.9
-Fixed a channel bug

v2.8
-Added Chat Type Bindings
-Added Channel Bindings by Number
-Channel Bindings can be overridden to save by name
-Updated a lot of old code
-toc to 30200

v1.2
-VisibilityOptions AutoHide is now smarter and shows whenever ChatBar is sliding or being dragged or the cursor is over its menu
-Fixed Eclipse onload error
-Fixed Whisper abreviation

v1.1
-Addon Channels Hidden added GuildMap
-Text has been made Localizable
-Officer chat shows up if you CanEditOfficerNote()
-Buttons now correctly update when raid, party, and guild changes
-Hide Text now correctly says Show Text
-Fixed button for channel 8 to diplay and tooltip correctly
-Added Reset Position Option
-Added Options to hide the each button by chat type or channel name (hide from button menu, show from main sub menu)
-Added option to use Channel Numbers as text overlay
-Added VisibilityOptions, however autohide is a bit finicky atm.

Many thanks for the mods - including orgainzing Cosmos. It was my introduction to mods years ago, and I've been using at least some of the components ever since.

I do want to report some "odd" behaviour with ChatBar - ever since I downloaded the most recent (2.5) update from WOW Interface, the colors have been intermittently aooearing in the buttons... I installed the version from Cosmos (also 2.5) when it came back up, and they didn't appear at all. I reloaded the WI version and still no colors. At first I got a swatter "nil value" error, but now I'm not getting any errors - just no colors. Any ideas?

Originally posted by jinleileiking can not work well on wow 2.4.3 simplified Chinese.

Can your majorsty tell me modify which file to make it localized??

There's no Chinese localization yet. if you want to make one, copy one of the other localization files, translate it, and email it to me @ [email protected]

Originally posted by gumbus I do want to report some "odd" behaviour with ChatBar - ever since I downloaded the most recent (2.5) update from WOW Interface, the colors have been intermittently aooearing in the buttons... I installed the version from Cosmos (also 2.5) when it came back up, and they didn't appear at all. I reloaded the WI version and still no colors. At first I got a swatter "nil value" error, but now I'm not getting any errors - just no colors. Any ideas?

Not a clue. only thing i could suggest is deleting your CharBar saved variables files and deleting you chat-cache.txt file (will reset chat settings), both from your WTF folder. Other than that i can't do much without an error msg.

In case you get any similar "complaints": I did as you suggested - still no colors. So I disabled all mods except ChatBar and ChatEdit - they worked fine. I continued reloading mods one-at-a-time until I identified "Nauticus" (which hasn't been updated for 3.0) as the culprit. FYI, it erases all the colors from the Chatbox, as well! Without Nauticus, everything chat-related seems to be working fine.

I loved ChatBar pre the silly patch .. now it won't work. I've downloaded it manually .. when That didn't work I went and got the InterfaceManager .. and still nothing? Theres no error .. just .. nothing, won't show up anywhere.
I miss my lil chat bar .. any suggestions?

Nice Skin
I'll have to rewrite the skin selection gui, don't hold your breath. If anyone else wants to use the skin in the mean time, just drop the Skin folder into the addon folder. Should work without any code changes.

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